Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 5 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Social Commentaries
The too lengthy labour of my eleventh and tenth books has been shortened, and has filed down mv work to a brief compass. Let idle men, to whom you have given protected leisure, read a fuller number; do you, Caesar, read these: perhaps you will read > those too!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Martial. “Book XII, Epigram 5 (Ker).” Translated by Walter C. A. Ker. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/martial/1359/.
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